This variant was collected by Kenneth Peacock in 1952 from Gordon Willis [1911-2001] of St John's, NL, and published as Leather Britches in Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports, Volume 1, pp.71-72, by the National Museum of Canada (1965) Crown Copyrights Reserved.

Another variant was collected as The Old Leather Breeches by Donagh MacDonagh [1916-1968] for his program, Ireland Is Singing on Radio Eireann c.1940-1950.

Kenneth Peacock noted that this is one of the most amusing Irish comic ballads found in Newfoundland. Many locally-composed ditties have used this type of humour to good effect too. He also noted that a version of this ballad appears in Manus O'Conor's Irish Com-All-Ye's, New York, 1901.

From Clonmel Tourism: Clonmel (Cluain Meala meaning Honey Meadow) - county town of Tipperary county, lies near the Irish south coast on the north bank of the River Suir. To the south of the town are the Comeragh Mountains. The town is a market town, with some industry (principally cider production), and is the center of a horse breeding and dog breeding area. Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy, was born in Clonmel in 1713. In 1815, the first regular passenger transport service between two Irish towns was established in Clonmel. An Italian immigrant named Charles Bianconi, a picture framer by trade, who had risen to prosperity and become mayor of the town, started a service of horse-drawn vehicles (Bianconi cars) between Clonmel and Cahir which later extended over the whole of southern Ireland.